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nsomaru··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
In this case it’s not because this subthread is specifically about comparing abuse levels in other industries and further whether the product should be banned or the abusive practice should be investigated and eliminated.
nsomaru··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
Depends upon the canon of construction for written contracts that you accept as correct.
nsomaru··on Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
They already bucket when context goes above 200k
nsomaru··on I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced
OP was talking about journalists attesting to the authenticity of video they produce
nsomaru··on Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025
This may be of interest to you, a few years before Kant with “Syādvāda” going beyond the binary implied by contradiction alone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekantavada
nsomaru··on Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
Hey, I’d be interested in your thoughts on this, or the key ideas/research results you relied on:
nsomaru··on Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Personally I am waiting for the day I can realistically buy a second hand three year old datacentre GPU so I can run Kimi K2 in my shed. Given enough time, not a pipe dream. But 10 years at least.
nsomaru··on The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by context windows
Hey, I’m interested in what you call “agentic search”. Did you roll your own or are you using a set of integrated tools?

I’ve used LightRAG and looking to integrate it with OpenWebUI and possibly air weave which was a show HN earlier.

My data is highly structured and has references between documents, so I wanted to leverage that structure for better retrieval and reasoning.

nsomaru··on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
Extensions without going through the App Store is one
nsomaru··on Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house
Why don’t get sued into usefulness when issues inevitably arise in properties they’ve inspected?

When you pay an expert and rely on their opinion, you have recourse

nsomaru··on The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use
These tools require API calls which usually aren’t priced like the consumer plans
nsomaru··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
You don’t need a key for aistudio.
nsomaru··on A 10-Year Battery for AirTag
The key element for a bona fide sale at common law is the buyer’s absence of knowledge of the defective title of the seller.

Not sure how US courts have interpreted this requirement but that’s the onus and I believe it rests on the third party buyer (to show absence of knowledge through evidence).

In that case the claim is against the thief only.

nsomaru··on ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials
It’s not war in terms of international law if it’s internal. Not clear cut that it’s not internal, but there’s nuance.
nsomaru··on He emptied an entire crypto exchange onto a thumb drive
I believe the argument goes like this: "fiat" depends on a declaration by a government that something has value. The way a government does that is by declaring something legal tender and accepting taxes denominated in that currency.

Contrast with a time when currency was pegged to a physical asset like gold and GBP so no depreciation in something like 300 years. Savings actually had meaning.

nsomaru··on Lynn Conway has died
Human rights are intimately woven into International Law and state sovereignty. The work of the TWAIL scholars is relevant, especially as regards how human rights are deployed to undermine the sovereignty of the global south following the rapid “decolonisation” of the mid 20th century.

I’m afraid it’s almost impossible to divorce politics and human rights.

nsomaru··on Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
The idiomatic equivalent is "case in point"
nsomaru··on Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]
Not sure about English law but in Roman law (and derived systems as in South Africa) the emphasis is on specific performance as a first resort — the court will seek to implement the intention of the parties embodied in the contract as far as possible.

Cancellation is a last resort.

nsomaru··on Why is everything based on likelihoods even though likelihoods are so small?
One simple way of quantifying this is (amt/cost of harm) * (risk of occurrence)
nsomaru··on AnyTracker: Track any number on any website
It doesn't work on a site I tried, and I'm interested in premium. Do you fix websites for premium users?
nsomaru··on Mistral 7B
Hey,

Out of interest, what does your stack look like to do this and how do you use the information? What front end do you use?

nsomaru··on Dumpster Tektronix 2465B Restoration
“res derelictae”
nsomaru··on What's new in Llama 2 and how to run it locally
Could you elaborate on the prompting strategies you have used that are more effective?
nsomaru··on The Sad Bastard Cookbook
This has been my dream, inspired from watching the Jetsons when I was younger
nsomaru··on What it feels like to work in AI right now
How did you provide the info for those 100 websites to GPT?
nsomaru··on Master Emacs in one year
To follow the path

Look to the master

Follow the master

Walk with the master

See through the master

Become the master

nsomaru··on Microservices are hard
Click on the comment time stamp then click “favourite” in the comment header.
nsomaru··on I finally found a use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+
Can you share an example of what might be a good service.

Re ransomware, how do you prevent it from deleting remote backups?

nsomaru··on The mysticism of Alan Watts (2018)
“Vedanta Treatise” by A Parthasarathy and a visit to the Vedanta Academy

Disclaimer: author is my teacher

nsomaru··on Our conscious experience of the world is a memory, says new theory
If memory serves, he does mention in the preface to “The World as Will and Representation” that the Vedic scholar would be best placed to understand what he is trying to say
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